Solzhenitsyn: A Biography

1080 Pages·1984·72.009 MB·english

by  Michael Scammell

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SOLZHENITSYN
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Thefollowingworks by Alexander Solzhenits\nhavebeenconsulted in thepreparationofthis
biography:
August1914. TranslatedbyMichaelGlenny. Copyright 1972. Farrar, Straus&Giroux. Cancer
Ward. Translated bv Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. Copyright 1969. Farrar, Straux &
Giroux. The First Circle. Translated by Thomas Whitney. Copyright 1968. Harper &
Row. TheGulagArchipelago, Vol. 1. TranslatedbyThomasWhitney. Copyright 1975. Har-
per & Row. TheGulagArchipelago, \'ol. 2. Translated by Thomas Whitney. Copyright 1975.
Harper & Row The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 3. Translated by Harry Willetts. Copyright
1978. Harper & Row. TheOakamitheCalf. Translated by Harry Willetts. Copyright 1979.
Harper & Row Prussian Sights. Translated bv Robert Conquest. Copyright 1977. P^arrar,
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Straux & Giroux. StoriesandProsePoems. Translated by Michael Glenny. Copyright 1971.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
The works published bv Harper tk Row Publishers, Inc. have been quoted with their permis-
sion.
Copyright© 1984by Michael Scammell
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Solzhenitsyn : a biography.
Bibliography; p.
Includes index.
— I. Solzhenitsyn, .\leksandr Isae—vich, 1918-
Biography. 2. Authors, Russian 20thcentury
Biography. I. Title.
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